by Peter Perkins
First I want to start out with the concept that life is a waking dream. I know it may be a term you are familiar with. Some major religions have the same idea that life is but a dream or an illusion. The world around us is like a projection letting us learn lessons and experience things; but to the soul it is but a temporary dream. With this as the basis for how life is then what would it be like to awaken from the dream?
Indeed many religions have spirituality at their core. Sometimes it is hidden under dogma and the more earthly concerns. When one looks beyond the surface, most religions try to reveal that we are beings of spirit, a soul,luminous beings not the creatures of the flesh we think of ourselves as. While this revelation that we are spirits may have at one time been the focus of religions, a shift occurred to more physical matters. Tithes, a tie to governments, control of information and things very much away from the root that reveals we are so much more than our physical bodies. Some religions still focus strongly on the spirit and do not have as many additional trappings as others.
Science has come to a similar realization recently through quantum physics. At the smallest levels everything is not the solid physical matter that we think of it as. Everything, when scaled down to subatomic levels, is energy. So what religion knew for years that we are beings of light not of physical matter, science is now discovering. I believe this is an important turning point since western society has focused so much on science being the truth. This lends the weight of science to spiritual matters. This opens the door to many who would otherwise never think of spirituality.
So then are there indications of what it is like to awaken? Is there anything that can give us a clue as to what it is like to realize we are in a dream? I think there are.
First we have examples of religious figures throughout history who seemed to posses incredible abilities. Healing the sick, the ability to travel instantaneously, the ability to speak with people distantly and many other things we would consider miracles. Second, there is a direct experience we can have that is as close to this experience as possible; lucid dreaming is the experience in which we realize we are in a dream, but wake up. If you have ever had a lucid dream then you know exactly what I am speaking of. If you have not, I want to cover that a bit.
In lucid dreaming we realize at some point within a dream that we are dreaming. This realization often leads us to feeling unlimited. We know in a dream anything is possible and since we are dreaming we can do whatever we desire. In a lucid dream if you want to go somewhere you could just fly off to wherever you wish to go. You could simply teleport from where you are to where you wish to be. Also, if you desire something within the dream you simply have to think of it and it manifests. This isn’t just objects but settings and situations.
If you were having a nightmare and suddenly you become lucid you could change the whole nature of the nightmare in a heartbeat.
As a personal example one of my lucid dreams I realized I was dreaming and found myself in a school-like setting. What a school though! The halls were filled with light and people were walking or floating down the halls. I realized I could float if I wanted to as well and soon I was floating down the hall with the others. After a while I felt like I was to learn something and found myself before a room. I went into the room and it was open to the sky. A beautiful noonday sun shined above me. I looked up and just basked in the light. Suddenly, I concentrated while looking up and the sunset and the moon rose above me. I kept doing this making the days pass within seconds. I knew this was but one of the lessons I could learn here.
So if Ascension is like this; if realizing we are in a dream is like a lucid dream, then how come more people aren’t flying around, or teleporting or performing what we would consider miracles?
In some ways people are doing these things. Stories of energy healing are becoming more common. Going out of body lets us travel to other locations and fly, and manifesting is happening, though it is not instantaneous. I think the reason we don’t see more overt examples of these things is because our higher selves know more about the impact we would have on others. We are still living in a world with others, and inadvertent manifestations, or an errant thought while driving sending us off to our destination would be disastrous to others – our higher self realizes this. I think there are many people awake or awakening. Yet we need to evolve, not only spiritually but mentally.
If we awakened without the mental capacity to understand the impact we would have on others it could lead to many situations where problems arise. Our higher selves know this and though we are not put back to sleep. the abilities come to us as we need them and with that aspect of our higher selves knowing what is best. I know it may seem frustrating to seek out ascension to want to awaken and realize our full unlimited potential but it is good that our higher selves are patiently watching and making sure we utilize our gifts in a way that will not bring harm.After all one could just as easily awaken and realizing it is all a dream wipe out a nation with an errant thought as they could provide food and shelterto many in need.
I think when we are mentally capable of handling these awakened gifts our higher selves will open those floodgates to full awakening and ascension.
Peter
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